Sunday, June 4, 2017

Old Bold Welders

Earlier this year, a Russian welder who worked for the Enterprise for the Construction, Repair and Maintenance of Highways in Tselinnoe, noticed how a fire extinguisher fitted perfectly into the barrel of an old decommissioned artillery howitzer cannon.

In his misguided belief that a fire extinguisher would make a great projectile, he charged the canon with acetylene, a hydrocarbon gas used in welding. When exploding from the howitzer, the abused fire extinguisher sent shrapnel spraying in all directions, resulting in the untimely demise of our aspiring bombardier.

Trained to use the elemental powers of hot plasma, welders are not normally daredevil types but this particular gentleman, was determined to prove the old adage:

'There are old welders and bold welders but there are no old, bold welders.'